RCS is an open standard created by GSMA. That's why you're wrong.

RCS is an open standard created by GSMA, not a Google product. Google and Samsung just have the most popular "flavours" of RCS

They are but disposables are quite popular as well and are getting more popular (higher margins I guess).

Yeah, I recently did it for a lab and it was... interesting.

My Ubuntu VM wasn't particularly great either but it was the one that my uni provided

You opened up Pandora's box. There's no closing it.

Fuck Nestle but also kitkat tastes good

Another sane take. Seriously, a breath of fresh air after seeing people on both Reddit and Lemmy talking about this with the entitlement of the average r/ChoosingBeggars post

To be fair, this is the most sane take I've seen about this from the pro adblock side. That's actually fucked up if they killed it out of nowhere but also sounds like Google.

That's a fair criticism. I personally don't care about it because I gave up on the idea of having any privacy ages ago but I get that people may not be happy with that.

If I were to play devil's advocate, I can say that the data they collect is important for serving you the right videos but let's be real here, Google definitely uses it to serve you ads everywhere else

Moissanite

Saw this and immediately purchased ad free boost. Not because I care about my privacy (I made peace with the fact that that's long gone) but because I wanna support the dev.